What if There’s More to the Christmas Story than You Thought?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We have an extra special episode of Ask Me Anything for you. Pastor J.D. wrote a short evangelistic book this year called, Searching for Christmas: What if There’s More to the Story than You Thought?, to put a gift in the hands of Christians for those they’re reaching out to. A lot of the normal Christmas Eve services, you might not be able to invite someone to, but this book creates a way to still have fruitful conversations this holiday season.

We’re happy to be able to present to you the full audio book in its entirety to enjoy and pass along to others. You can purchase copies of this short evangelistic book at thegoodbook.com.

If you’d like a copy of this free audio book (in non-podcast form), you can access it as a free gift now.

About Searching for Christmas:

Discover the awesome God at the heart of the familiar Christmas story. Most of us are familiar with the events of the first Christmas—the manger scene, shepherds watching sheep, angels singing their songs, and wise men arriving—but what if there’s more to the story? What if the birth of Jesus is actually the most significant event in all of history and can transform our lives? In a compelling, insightful, winsome, and personal way, J.D. Greear shows that if we get to know the God who lies behind the Christmas story and at the heart of the Christmas story, we’ll discover the joy, hope, purpose, and belonging we’re all searching for.

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0:00.0	Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network.
0:05.0	Hey, everyone.
0:07.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to Ask Me Anything.
0:26.3	I'm Matt Love.
0:27.1	And we actually have a really exciting episode of Ask Me Anything for you today.
0:32.0	Pastor J.D. wrote a short evangelistic book this year called Searching for Christmas.
0:35.6	What if there's more to the story than you thought?
0:38.0	And the idea is just, it's something that you can put in the hands of someone that you're reaching out to.
0:43.3	If you're wanting to share the gospel with someone, if you've got someone you're really wanting to
0:46.9	invest in this Christmas, this is just an evangelistic book that you can give them. We know that a lot of the normal Christmas Eve services might not be something
0:55.3	that you can invite people to like you normally would be able to. But this book just creates a way
0:59.5	to still have fruitful conversations about the gospel this holiday season. So we are so happy to be able
1:05.3	to present to you this full audio book in its entirety to enjoy and pass along to others. But you can
1:10.0	also purchase copies of
1:11.2	the short evangelistic book at the goodbook.com. So anyway, here is searching for Christmas.
1:30.1	Chapter 1. Why I Own a Fluffy Neck Warmer The etiquette of Christmas gift buying can be quite stressful.
1:34.0	When I came home for Christmas the first year I was away at college, I met up with a girl I'd
1:38.1	been dating the year before.
1:39.6	It was December 23rd.
1:41.2	To be honest, it wasn't very clear what our relationship status was. This was before
1:45.6	Facebook, so I couldn't just check on there. I had just left my parents' house to drive over to hers
1:50.7	when a panicky thought struck me. Am I supposed to have a Christmas present for her? My mind raced.
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